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Canadian roboticists have created a #drone# that can land on icebergs sloped nearly 60 degrees, with wind speeds of up to 30 km/h. Landing on icebergs lets drones monitor them for months, producing more detailed observations than a flyby overhead.
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Six stretchable sensors, a microcontroller, and just 0.318 mW of power come together for accurate motion sensing.
A napkin sketch at a conference. A bimodal nuclear engine that could both power and propel a spacecraft. Could this cut the trip to Mars in half? @IEEESpectrum's editor in chief on the physics—and the paperwork—behind the idea.
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Persona AI wants to make #humanoid# robots that can perform specific skilled labor. They chose welding. The long, linear welds that Persona will focus on are used repeatedly in shipbuilding.
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Spain’s 2 GW nuclear extension is less about politics than about buying time for a stressed, solar-heavy grid.
AI data centres demand power. Human brains are much more efficient than GPUs, using neurons to communicate information. A mistake in a #semiconductor# lab led to researchers developing a process that can make a regular transistor behave like a neuron.
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Axios Math has presented an #AI-generated# proof for the 246 theorem, stating how close primes are to each other. AI-generated formalized mathematical proofs are one area where AI can create code that can be verified as correct and safe by logic systems.
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Ritu Favre, President of Emerson's Test & Measurement business @NIglobal, explains why the future of engineering will be defined not only by what we create, but by our ability to verify that those systems are safe, reliable, and ready for the real world.
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The AI boom led to a surge in demand for GPUs, but now #CPU# s have capacity issues too. Agentic AI systems are to blame, especially systems that can make calls to start new program instances.
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A new GAO report reveals how funding cancellations may weaken long-term U.S. chip innovation, though manufacturing incentives are panning out
Currently, manufacturing many #semiconductors# requires hard-to-get rare earth metals that are vulnerable to geopolitical issues. A collaboration of researchers and engineers is trying to find ways around these material bottlenecks.
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Can standardized, engine-based microplants make green methanol cost-competitive for global shipping faster than mega-refineries can?
Large language models #LLMs# hallucinate websites and domains that sound plausible, but aren’t useful. Criminals are setting up malicious websites under those domains, in a new scam called “slop squatting.”
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Mouthpad is an experimental tongue-computer interface that lets you control smartphones and computers without your hands.
How China’s Yttrium Curbs Threaten Data Centers
“We reverse-engineered Pleiades and found it was using DNA fragment-length patterns to make its predictions—a signal humans hadn’t used to detect Alzheimer’s before”
New research shows earthquake sensors can “hear” a hurricane, providing data that could complement existing tools for modeling the intense storms.
